thrive vs wax

thrive

verb
  • To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish. 

  • To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable. 

wax

verb
  • To grow. 

  • To defeat utterly. 

  • To move from low tide to high tide. 

  • To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply. 

  • To kill, especially to murder a person. 

  • To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny. 

  • To increasingly assume the specified characteristic. 

  • To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon. 

adj
  • Made of wax. 

noun
  • Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters. 

  • Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish. 

  • Beeswax. 

  • The process of growing. 

  • Earwax. 

  • A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it. 

  • A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil. 

  • The phonograph record format for music. 

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